I just wonder how many more school massacres it will take before four words, which I am sure are already being muttered beneath the breath of millions of Americans, break out into mainstream opinion: Sod the Second Amendment.
It is all very easy to scoff at Americans for their love of guns and the obvious evidence that it is contributing to a murder rate that is vastly higher than in any Western European country. But US gun control is part of a wider fault in the practice of government, and one which is being committed increasingly by all developed countries – the fetish for tying the hands of future legislators with over-prescriptive charters.
Donald Trump today has ignored questions on gun controls. Barack Obama on these occasions always used to express some desire to place greater controls on guns, but the end result was the same: very little happened.
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